Big Lie, Dumb Idea

Two precious moments from Biden’s SOTUA

Old man yells at America—no joke

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The fact that President Biden got through his State of the Union address without soiling his diaper seems really to have cheered up Democrats and progressives. Okay, I’ll give them that. But it was no Gettysburg Address. Biden being Biden, his speech was shot through with distortions, falsehoods, stupid takes on the issues of the day, and rusty old boilerplate. For instance:

In a literal sense, history is watching.  History is watching—just like history watched three years ago on January 6th—when insurrectionists stormed this very Capitol and placed a dagger to the throat of American democracy.

First, Biden should look up literal in the dictionary, because he obviously has no idea what it means. Second, history was not watching. History is not an entity. It has no eyes to see. Nor does it have right and wrong sides, nor does it pass judgement. Oh, and third, if January 6, 2023, constituted an insurrection, why is it that the Biden Justice Department has charged no one involved in that outrage with insurrection?

These, however, are minor points. Sorting through the trash heap of Biden’s speech, I’ve selected one lie and one dumb idea for discussion. The lie has to do with a state supreme court ruling in Alabama; the dumb idea involves Gaza.

 First the lie:

History is watching [sic!] another assault on freedom.  Joining us tonight is Latorya Beasley, a social worker from Birmingham, Alabama.

Fourteen months ago—fourteen months ago, she and her husband welcomed a baby girl thanks to the miracle of IVF. She scheduled treatments to have that second child, but the Alabama Supreme Court shut down IVF treatments across the state, unleashed by a Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.  She was told her dream would have to wait [emphasis added]

As a matter of fact, the case decided by the Alabama Supreme Court had nothing to do with the US Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade. Indeed, it had nothing to do with abortion.

What happened was this. In 2020, a patient entered a hospital fertility clinic via an unsecured door, took several embryos from the cryogenic nursery, then accidentally dropped them on the floor, destroying them. The parents involved sued the hospital over this mishap and the case eventually made its way to Alabama’s high court. At issue was whether the embryos, “located outside of a biological uterus at the time they are killed,” were unborn children covered under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor law. The Court ruled that under a plain reading of the law they were, and that it was up to the legislature, not the Court, to change the law. This the legislature undertook to do. As a first step, it passed a bill a bill to “provide civil and criminal immunity for death or damage to an embryo to any individual or entity when providing or receiving services related to in vitro fertilization.” The Governor of Alabama signed it into law on March 6, a day before the SOTUA.

Roe v. Wade was never cited in the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling. Nor did the Alabama Supreme Court “shut down” IVF. Biden’s outrage was phony, and he was lying.

Then, the dumb idea:

In their increasingly frantic attempts to placate the anti-Israel wing of the Democratic Party base, Biden & Co. have made a big deal about “humanitarian aid” to Palestinian civilians in war-torn Gaza. They make out that it’s up to Israel to facilitate such aid, by agreeing to a ceasefire in its war against Hamas. That a ceasefire would prolong the war seems not to have penetrated their leaden skulls.

Anyhow, to show that their hearts are in the right place, the Bidenistas came up with the idea of airdropping pallet loads of military MREs into Gaza. It made for good TV until the inevitable happened: A parachute failed to deploy properly, a pallet hurtled down, half a dozen people on the ground were killed.

Dumb? You bet. But it gets even dumber:

The United States has been leading international efforts to get more humanitarian assistance into Gaza.  Tonight, I’m directing the U.S. military to lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier in the Mediterranean on the coast of Gaza that can receive large shipments carrying food, water, medicine, and temporary shelters.

No U.S. boots will be on the ground.

A temporary pier will enable a massive increase in the amount of humanitarian assistance getting into Gaza every day.

So the Commander-in-Chief is proposing to insert American military personnel into a war zone for the purpose of supplying aid to Gaza. But since there will be no American boots on the ground, there will be no means of ensuring that the aid will be properly distributed. Distribution, we are told, will be the responsibility of UN agencies, the Red Cross and maybe even Qatar—all of which are hostile to Israel and de facto allies of Hamas. Qatar even provides saft haven for the senior leaders of that gruesome death cult.

All that’s bad enough. Worse is the strong possibility that US military personnel will be targeted by Hamas, boots on the ground or no. It wouldn’t be the first time that the hapless Biden Administration has put American troops in the crosshairs of terrorists—it got thirteen of them killed in Kabul, remember. But not to worry! According to the Defense Department, the mission doesn’t require “combat capability,” so there’s no need for the US Navy to provide security.

This seems a high price to pay for a few thousand jihadi votes in Dearborn, Michigan.

It’s in the nature of things that State of the Union addresses are eminently forgettable. Despite all the shouting, Biden’s most recent one will be no exception, nor will it help him on Election Day. Sorry Joe, but bloviation can’t slow the ageing process, add IQ points, or make you less of a liar.